>I have terrible handwriting but I was at school a few years before computers really made a hit in the UK's education system (I'm 31). I would often get marked down for poor handwriting and yet never quite understood why I wasn't allowed to bring in printed works.

When my kids were in school, we had to fight with a few teachers about letting them submitted typed work. I was going to write that I think that's pretty much gone now, but seems to me one of my nieces or nephews just had the same fight.

Tamar